I just saw a coworker with something like 30 tabs open in Chrome. I also know someone who regularly hits the 500-tab limit on their phone, though I suspect that’s more about being messy than anything else.
When I’m researching something, I might have 10-50 tabs open for a while, but once I’m done, I close them all. If I need them again, browser history is there.
Why do people keep so many tabs open? Is there a workflow or habit I’m missing? Do they just never clean up, or is there a real benefit to tab hoarding? I’m genuinely curious. Why do people do that?
I wonder the same about people with hundreds of unread emails. Almost as if they don’t know that you can unsubscribe from newsletters.
When your inbox is a mess, email stops working for you. It’s impossible to find anything worth reading, so you end up reading nothing.
Same with notifications. If you allow all of them, it’s functionally the same as disabling the whole notification system.
I go through and unsub to stuff, but some keep coming back. Then I make a filter to delete them when they come.